| BkI:17.III.3 | God is the only Creator in the sense that God creates all things. Things did not create Him. God is a creative source that creates love and nothing but love. Yet even God cannot create outside of union. Joining is required to create. Creation is extension. If the one who creates does not extend "something" to which it is attached, then one is not creating. God creates from Himself because He has no basis except Himself of pure love. Love is the only thing that can be created because it is the only basis from which anything can be created. The Father cannot join anything other than love, for only love is real. In truth there is no such thing as the absence of love. This is what we mean when we say that God is the alpha and omega. |